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Series of single made-for-television dramas.
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- E1 ContactNext upJan 6, 1985 · 66 min
Synopsis
A platoon of British soldiers aggressively descend upon a car on a Northern Irish border roadside and promptly execute the driver and apprehend the passenger.
Guest stars: Sean Chapman (Platoon Commander), Steve Sweeney (Smith), Gary Hailes (Jones), Graham Fletcher-Cook (Rankin), John Blundell (Corporal), Ozzie Stevens (L/Corporal), Jem Ahmet, Jason Cunliffe
- E2 PoppylandJan 13, 1985 · 90 min
Synopsis
He is a respectable pillar of London society who yearns for an idyllic existence away from the noise and the smoke. She feels hemmed in by the confines of an isolated fishing village and dreams of the bright lights, and even brighter people, of the great metropolis. On a hot August day in 1883, Clement Scott, the writer, and Louie Jermy, the miller's daughter, meet each other for the first time.
Guest stars: Alan Howard (Clement Scott), Phoebe Nicholls (Louie Jermy), John McEnery (Algernon Swinburne), Richard Wilson (Theodore Watts-Dunton)
- E3 Unfair ExchangesJan 20, 1985 · 90 min
Synopsis
Mavis's plight will ring a bell in the heart of anyone who ever felt like murdering a telephone. Is some ghoulish mind behind the increasingly mysterious and sinister calls she gets? Is it madness or the system, or a joke that's bigger than all of us?
Guest stars: Julie Walters (Mavis), Ken Campbell (Tim Rickett), Janet Henfrey (Teacher), John Abineri (Playwright), Arnold Diamond (Telephone Voice), Christopher Ellison (Telecom Engineer), Wolf Kahler (German Interviewer), Charles Pemberton (Pub Man)
- E4 Knockback (1)Jan 27, 1985 · 90 min
Synopsis
In 1965, at the age of 25, Alan Ackland is sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of a business associate. In 1971, Sylvia Barker, lonely and depressed after a failed marriage and with two young children to bring up alone, seeks a new direction in her life and applies to become a voluntary prison visitor. Several years later, their paths cross.
Guest stars: Peggy Aitchison (Alan's Mother), Howard Lew Lewis (Wandsworth Prison Officer), Pauline Collins (Sylvia Barker), T.R. Bowen (Sylvia's Lover), Kathleen Michael (Sylvia's Mother), Tony Rohr (Parkhurst Prisoner), Derrick O'Connor (Alan Ackland)
- E5 Knockback (2)Feb 3, 1985 · 90 min
Synopsis
Alan and Sylvia fall in love and Alan gains a renewed sense of purpose. He begins to hope for an eventual release on licence. However both he and Sylvia have to face the fact that, for the foreseeable future, they cannot enjoy any physical intimacy. They decide to treat their affair as a long Victorian courtship.
Guest stars: Pauline Collins (Sylvia Barker), Derrick O'Connor (Alan Ackland), Michelle Mulvany (Ruthie), Timothy Jessel (Adam)
- E6 LentFeb 10, 1985 · 90 min
Synopsis
It is the Easter holidays at Gorse Park Preparatory School. Everyone has gone home except four elderly members of staff and young Paul Blake, the orphaned son of the former headmaster. The weather is beautiful, the countryside is lovely, but all is far from peaceful as the adults quarrel and Paul grows up.
Guest stars: Graham McGrath (Paul Blake), Harry Andrews (Matey), Fabia Drake (Mrs Blake), David Langton (Mr Edwards), Constance Chapman (Mrs Edwards)
- E7 The Unknown SoldierFeb 17, 1985 · 90 min
Synopsis
The soldier in the spinal carriage can neither move nor speak. Who is he? His fellow wounded and officers are intent on finding out.
Guest stars: Nicholas Clay (Richards), Ann Thornton (Jane), Steve Ubels (Mac), Antony Carrick (Rankin)
- E8 The Burston RebellionFeb 24, 1985 · 90 min
Synopsis
On a chilly winter's day in 1911, Kitty and Tom Higdon arrived in the Norfolk village of Burston to take up positions in the village school. Their arrival was to irrevocably change the lives of the villagers and their children.
Guest stars: Eileen Atkins (Kitty Higdon), Bernard Hill (Tom Higdon), John Shrapnel (Rev. Charles Tucker Eland), John Abineri (Farmer Fowler), Frank Mills (Farmer Edwards), Peter Benson (Peggram), Norman Jones (Walter Garnham), Nicola Cowper (Violet Potter)
- E9 Space StationMar 3, 1985 · 90 min
Synopsis
"It's a city of glass. There are trees and flowers from all over the world. And marble. Acres of it. And in a field, there are cows as still as statues." Maria is taken to a new foster home in a magical city where she becomes sunshine, finds a statue that talks to her and meets a boy. She lives happily in a world of fantasy and imagination until one day something happens to change all that.
Guest stars: Penny Murray (Sunshine), Patricia Garwood (Mrs. Small), Peter Jonfield (Eddie), Judy Gridley (Donna)
- E10 In the Secret StateMar 10, 1985 · 90 min
Synopsis
A department head within the British secret service uncovers some unpleasant secrets when he investigates the apparent suicide of a colleague.
Guest stars: Frank Finlay (Frank Strange), Matthew Marsh (James Quitman), Geoffrey Chater (Michael Hatherley), Michael Byrne (Guy Preger), Natasha Richardson (Jilly), Roger Lloyd Pack (Selser)
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